troughy

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adjective

Having troughs (long narrow depressions between waves).

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Meanings

adjectivetroughy (comparative more troughy, superlative most troughy)

comparative more troughy · superlative most troughy

  1. Having troughs (long narrow depressions between waves).

    Wall'd around with driving foam, / Reels she in the troughy brine; […]

    1850, W. H. Sadler, Miscellaneous Poems, Historical and Descriptive, page 15
    1 more example

    […] they tumbled and rolled over them, much after the manner of two ships in a rough, bobbing, and troughy sea, till at last one came down sprawling with the other above him.

    1862, William Martin, Peter Parley's Annual, page 141

Origin

From trough + -y.

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